armiño

• arminho (reintegrationist)

Already attested in local Latin documents in the 12th century; in Galician since the 13th century. Either from Proto-Germanic *harmô (cf. Old High German harmo), or from Latin mūs armenius ("Armenian mouse").^[1]

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈmiɲo/ [aɾˈmĩ.ɲʊ]
• Rhymes: -iɲo
• Hyphenation: ar‧mi‧ño

armiño m (plural armiños)

1. stoat, ermine
2. the fur of this animal

armiño (feminine armiña, masculine plural armiños, feminine plural armiñas)

1. made of ermine fur
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana., A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:

     Et era forrado en pẽna armjña

     And it was lined in ermine fur

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “arminho”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “armjñ”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “armin”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “armiño”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “armiño”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “armiño”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Possibly an early borrowing from Latin (mūs) armenius, or alternatively of Germanic origin.

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈmiɲo/ [aɾˈmi.ɲo]

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• Rhymes: -iɲo
• Syllabification: ar‧mi‧ño

armiño m (plural armiños)

1. ermine
2. (heraldry) ermine

• “armiño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024